dcz wrote:I would not call that a bug, but.
Profile id removing is not the easiest option to use, if you did not restricted your user names to alphanumeric characters, your should not use it, especially if it just fixes the matter.

install.xml wrote:__________________________________________________
NOTE: profile and user messages pages ID removing:
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phpBB/member/nicknames VS phpBB/nicknames-uxx.html

If you use profile and / or user messages pages ID removing, you should know that a custom urlencode
will be used to circumvent a bug with mod_rewrite.
This imply that some chars like "&", "/", "#" and spaces will always be double encoded.
For example a user named rock&roll will require rock%2526roll (double urlencoded &) to be usable.
( http://www.php.net/urlencode => http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34602 )

There are other issues with custom characters, like accents, which will add some urlencoded chars in urls.
It's not an SEO issue, since bots knows about urlencoding, but it can end up building pretty long url with multi byte characters.
This does not concern the a-zA-Z0-9 chars, underscore ("_"), hyphen ("-") and dot (".") included.
In phpbb_seo/phpbb_seo_class.php, you will no longer see different methods.

This of course means that the ID removing on profile and user messages pages is more comfy and universally efficient
to use with alphanumeric chars user names (without accents).

SeO wrote:Looks like you need to keep id for user urls for more than just to have the mod working.

dcz wrote:If you have some user with more than alphanumerical characters, then using the profile id removing option is just pointless.

mutank wrote:No user in the entire site invalidates the alphanumeric system.

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ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789_-.

dcz wrote:

mutank wrote:No user in the entire site invalidates the alphanumeric system.

This confuses me. Does 100% of your user names composed with theses characters (and no other of course) :

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ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789_-.

If not, turn profile ID removing option off (and eventually turn on the virtual folder for profile one).
Also, if all your issue disappears with profile ID removing option deactivated, then, it may be a working solution not to activate it. We're only talking of profile pages here ...